Page 65 of His Pretty Omega
Adopting a sullen look, he pushed his bottom lip out in a pout I had once been unable to resist.
“Alex, don’t be like that. You can’t possibly still be mad.”
“I’m not mad,” I assured him. “Are you here alone?”
We were at the hotel Seth and I had met at, having bought their same New Year’s Eve package as the year before. With one exception.
This year I had upgraded massively, and booked the honeymoon penthouse suite we had stayed at on our baby moon. If things went according to plan, we would be celebrating something besides the new year in a few hours.
It also marked the first time we had been away from Izzy for any length of time. Even though we weren’t going to be gone that long, leaving her had been harder on both of us thanwe had expected.
River glanced over his shoulder at the double doors to the ballroom, shrugging.
“I came with a couple of single friends. We were hoping to meet some eligible alphas.” Turning back to me, he waved one hand in my direction. “And then poof, here you are.”
My grin broadened when I heard my mate growl, “What in the actual fuck! Mom, I’ve gotta go. Some little boytoy is getting handsy with my man.”
Shaking my head, I informed River, “I’m not here alone, and I am not eligible. Sorry.”
“Everything good with the baby?” I asked Seth, as he slid next to me, one arm sliding around my waist, while the other was planted firmly on my stomach, directly above my cock.
My mate was without a doubt staking his claim.
Seth smiled up at me, even as he watched River from the corner of his eyes. “All good. The grandparents are playing swap the baby, even though we are only going to be gone for two nights. I think I know where she will be when we get home, but we might need to double check once we hit town. I got distracted by my alpha getting felt up by some rent boy and might have stopped listening.”
“Baby?” River asked, astonished. “You have a baby?”
Seth turned and gave River a thin-lipped smile, annoyance clear in his blue eyes. “Who the fuck are you and why are you touching my mate?”
A laugh barked out of me before I could contain it. I did love it when Seth got all territorial. It didn’t happen often, but when it did I secretly preened a bit inside.
“Mate?” River exclaimed, his face falling.
“Seth, this is River,” I introduced them. “We used to date. River, my mate, Seth.”
“Oh, I’ve heard about you,” Seth raised one brow in what could only be perceived as a challenge. “The cheater.”
River’s face flushed brightly, as he stammered, “We weren’t exclusive!”
I wouldn’t have been surprised if he stamped his foot, but even his lie didn’t faze me. There was no point arguing with River about our relationship. It was a blip in my past, and nothing more.
“Well, one of you for sure wasn’t,” Seth said dryly.
“Yes,” I responded to River’s question, not bothering to argue with River about our relationship. “We have a daughter. She’s four months old and is every bit as pretty as her daddy.”
“If you’ll excuse us, this is our first kid free night since she was born, and I have plans for my alpha,” Seth gave me a wicked, heated look that had my blood sizzling and my cock waking up. “Let’s go up to the suite. I want to get you naked.”
River made some sort of strangled sound, but my attention was totally focused on my omega. “I thought youwanted to see if you could convince the D.J. to play some salsa.”
Seth pushed his body more firmly into mine and slid his hand up my chest. “I want to do something else now.”
“Yeah?” I whispered, getting lost in his eyes, the feel of his body next to mine, the scent of peaches on his skin.
The last few months had been a blur of sleepless nights, dirty diapers, and trying to manage a new baby while both of us worked full-time. We hadn’t had any alone time, and we needed a couple of days to reconnect.
“What do you have in mind,cariño?”
Pulling my head down for a heated kiss, Seth whispered in my ear, “Alex, I want you to claim me. Tonight. Now.”
